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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests

Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004

The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for … regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can lead to win-win situations, in which social welfare as well as the … private net benefits of firms operating under such regulation can be increased. This paper analyses the Porter hypothesis with …

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What If? A Look at Integrity Pacts

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

This note examines the Integrity Pact (IP) methodology proposed by Transparency International to confront the problem of corruption in public procurement. The examination draws from a decision model for participants developed elsewhere, in which the critical elements are shown to be the...

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Corrupción y captura en la regulación de los servicios públicos

Boehm, Frédéric - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 7 (2005) July-December, pp. 245-263

Regulation plays a key part in public service reforms. However, corruption and the risk of capture may undermine the …

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De la empresa al mercado: la desintegración vertical del transporte terrestre en España

López, Raúl Compés - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 7 (2005) July-December, pp. 227-244

The sub-contracting of land transport is the governmental structure most used by Spanish transport firms. This model is the result of a vertical disintegration process that entails selling vehicles and reassigning tasks within or outside the business. Institutional reforms that regulate...

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Federal Securities Regulations and Stock Market Returns

Liu, Tung; Santoni, Gary; Stone, Courtenay Cliff - Department of Economics, Ball State University - 2005

This paper examines the impact of federal securities statutes (seven major legislative acts and 535 amendments) on the mean and variance of total real U.S. stock market returns. In contrast to previous work, this study controls for the persistence of the variability of stock returns, employs a...

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Optimal sliding scale regulation: An application to regional electricity distribution in England and Wales

Hawdon, David; Hunt, Lester C; Levine, Paul; Rickman, Neil - Surrey Energy Economics Centre (SEEC), School of Economics - 2005

This paper examines optimal price (i.e. ‘sliding scale’) regulation of a monopoly when productivity and managerial … effort are not observed. We show how to operationalise this model of incentive regulation and use actual data from … electricity distribution in England and Wales to make welfare comparisons of sliding scale regulation with a stylised price cap …

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Are two-part tariffs efficient when consumers plan ahead?: An empirical study

Fernàndez-Villadangos, Laura - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2006

During the last two decades there has been an increase in using dynamic tariffs for billing household electricity consumption. This has questioned the suitability of traditional pricing schemes, such as two-part tariffs, since they contribute to create marked peak and offpeak demands. The aim of...

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The Effectiveness of Britain's Financial Service Authority: An Economic Analysis

Beardsley, Colin; O'Brien, John R. - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2004

, large firms act as “Stackelberg leaders” in voluntary disclosure games. FSA regulation shifts power from leaders to …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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Privatizing Highways in Latin America: Is It Possible to Fix What Went Wrong?

Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic, Alexander - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

This paper reviews the Latin American experience with highway privatization during the last decade. Based on evidence from Argentina, Colombia and Chile, we find that private financing of new highways freed up fewer public resources than expected because public funds were often diverted to bail...

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